Antistatic and electrically conducting composition

US5616287A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Ciba-Geigy · US

Inventors

• Jurgen Finter · Glückstadt, DE
• Bruno Hilti · Basel, CH
• Carl W. Mayer · Riehen, CH
• Ernst Minder · Sissach, CH

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 28, 1995
• Grant date: Apr 1, 1997
• Expiry date: Mar 28, 2015

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H01B1/121
• WIPO field: Macromolecular chemistry, polymers
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The action of thermoplastic polymers to whose polymer backbone aliphatic or cycloaliphatic groups are bonded via a group --O--, --O--CO--, --CO--OR.sup.22 --OCO-- or --CO--O--, said aliphatic or cycloaliphatic groups being substituted by Cl, Br and/or iodine in the .alpha.-, .beta.-, .gamma.- or .omega.-position, on an unsubstituted or substituted tetrathio-, tetraseleno- or tetratelluro-naphthalene or -tetracene contained in this polymer gives electrically conducting compositions by the formation of charge transfer complexes. These compositions are suitable for the production of antistatic or electrically conducting mouldings, sheets, filaments, fibres, coatings and composites.